With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that.

U. She graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University. Representative Bill Emerson a Republican from Cape Girardeau on June 22 1975.

The district consists of Southeast and South Central Missouri and includes the Bootheel the Lead Belt and the Ozarks. On January 22 2013 Emerson resigned her seat in Congress to become the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. With the defeat of Congressman Ike Skelton at the conclusion of the 111th Congress Emerson became the dean i.